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How did the Paleo-indians migrate from Asia to the Americas?
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By a bridge called the Bering Land Bridge.
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What is the olmec known for?
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Being the 1st civilization, building the 1st pyramid, archiculture and sculpture.
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What is the Mayan known for?
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Pyramids, large stone temples and buildings, palaces and bridges.
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What is the Aztec known for?
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Being fierce warriors, conquering towns, their greatest city, and trade.
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What is the Inca known for?
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Expanding their territory, building and art.
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How did the Anasazi use their environment?
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They used their environment to grow maize and other things such as squash. They also built their houses in cliffs and canyons.
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How did the mound builders use their environment?
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Examples are the Hopewell and the Missiapians. They bulit large settlements. They also bulit large burial mounds to honor their dead. They were skilled farmers and traders. Agriculture
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How did the Iroquois live and become powerful people?
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The Iroquois lived as farmers, hunters and traders. They lived in long wooden houses. They became powerful by their alliance called the Iroquois League.
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What beliefs did most Native American people share?
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+spiritual forces were everywhere.
+spritz lived within plants. +about property and sharing it. |
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What lead to the rise and the fall of the following kingdoms?
Ghana Mali Songhai |
Ghana:rise-salt n gold
Fall-trade routes were stopped. Mali:rise-Mansa Musa went on a hajj fall- he died Songhai:rise-askia the great created many things. Fall-askia the great lost power. |
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Define feudalism.
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A interrelated political and social system.
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The causes of the decline of feudalism in the Middle Ages.
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The growth trade lead to the decline of feudalism and the manor system.
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The Renaissance
Origin-? what influenced thinking at this time? |
Origin- it means "rebirth".
Classical writings and European scholars. |
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A narrow strip of land exposed during the Ice Age.
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Bering land bridge
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A movement of people or animals from one region to another.
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Migration.
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Images craved on tall poles by Native Americans living in the Pacific Northwest.
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Totems.
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The first political confedration of Native Americans in north America.
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Iroquois league.
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The famous ruled of Mali.
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Mansa Musa
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A pilgrimage to Mecca.
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Hajj
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The most famous ruler of Songhai.
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Askia the great
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The first people in Ghana were farmers who lived along the.....
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Niger river
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Salt found in the ... Was traded by the people of Ghana.
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Sahara desert
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... Was founded in the 600's by an Arab named Muhammad.
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Islam.
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A ... Is a journey or pilgrimage to Mecca taken by devout Muslims.
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Hujj
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Mali reached the height of it's wealth, power, and fame under ... , it's most famous ruler.
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Mansa Musa.
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Askia the Great set up five ... Within Songhai in order to improve government.
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Provinces.
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Enslaved .... Were often bought to perform menial labor and domestic chores.
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Africans.
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... Djenne and Gao were important trade cities in the kingdom of Mali.
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Timbuktu.
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The ... Were a series of holy wars fought between European Christians and Muslims Turks.
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Crusades.
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... Was a political and social and economic system where powerful lords divided their lands among lesser nobles and peasants worked the land.
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Feudal system.
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A place of worship for Muslims.
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Mosques.
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A philosopher and teacher who wrote a work called Republic.
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Plato.
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A great teacher who wanted to make people think and question their own beliefs.
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Socrates.
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A form of government in which people rule themselves.
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Democracy.
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Warriors who fought on horseback and were given land in exchange for military service.
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Knights.
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Disease that spread across Europe killing an estimating 25 million people.
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Black death/ plaque
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Means "rebirth" and refers to the period that followed the Middle Ages in Europe.
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Renaissance.
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developed a printing press that used movable type.
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Johannes Gutenberg.
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An economic system that unifies and increases the power and wealth of a nation.
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Mercantilsim.
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Businesses in which a group of people invest together.
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Joint-stock companies
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For hundreds of years West Africans did not profit much from the Saharan trade because the routes were run....
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Berbers.
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Mali reached the height of its wealth, power, and fame under...
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Mansa Musa.
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Mansa Musa began building .... Which were used for Muslim prayer.
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Mosques.
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... Supported education and learning and created an effective government.
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Askia the Great.
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Things left behind by early peoples such as stone tools.
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Artifacts
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Pictures or symbols that are used to represent words sounds or concepts.
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Hieroglyphics.
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A highly developed society.
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Civilization.
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A person who moves from place to place.
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Nomad
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A government linking different groups.
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Fedration.
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A village of stone dwellings bulit by the Anasazi.
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Pueblo.
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A movement of large number of people into a new homeland.
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Migration
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A type of sun-dried mud brick
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Adobe
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A scientific method to find out how old an artifact is.
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Carbon dating
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A society ruled by religious leaders.
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Theocracy.
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The study of ancient peoples.
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Archaeology.
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What was the significance of the crusades for Europe?
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Trade grew as well as the minds of the Muslim thinkers.
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